Sociology: Work & Labour

How has the way we spend our time changed over the last fifty years?Are we really working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones?What does ...

*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017* *Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize* Over a million p...

Corporations are crucial to society's well-being. Yet, not many have chosen to adapt themselves to the expectations of employees and the society at...

* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Po...

'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Gu...

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to i...

In todays new economyin which good jobs are typically knowledge or technology basedmany well-educated and culturally savvy young people are instead...

The experience of Hong Kongs innovative and creative industries and the challenges they face serves as an important case study for other Chinese an...

''''Under the latest iteration of the American Dream, if you aren''''t a billionaire yet, you haven''''t tried hard enough.'''' At the height of...

In recent years the Danish flexicurity model has attracted attention from the European Union as a successful way of combining a flexible labour law...

Shortlisted for the CMI Management Books of the Year Awards. An expert on innovation argues that many capable women are losing out at work, and th...

This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...

Race, ethnicity and gender played an important role in the complex relationship between export agriculture, labour and state power in Chiapas durin...

This book explores the ways that women combine motherhood with paid work in contemporary Ireland and the consequences for individual women, familie...

More than a million men, women, and children work in American agriculture, and yet their stories are rarely told, their low-wage jobs are not inclu...

I was never really a big coffee drinker and, of course, tea is the thing in China. But I just can't help myself. Also, the place I have now landed ...

This leading, authoritative textbook has been carefully and substantially revised to provide the indispensable foundational resource for the sociol...

This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how str...

All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things correctly, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric...